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Antibodies are secreted by a special group of white blood cells called lymphocytes. Each type of cell (including bacteria) has a unique protein on its cell membrane - an antigen. If a lymphocyte does not recognise a particular antigen, it will assume that the cell (or bacterium) is foreign and hostile. This is what antibodies respond to - the stimulus as the result of an unfamiliar cell. The antibodies attach to the antigens and kill the cell, or bacterium.
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What pathogens respond to antibodies?
Antibodies respond to pathogens.
How might your body respond to an allergen?
Your body responds with antibodies
How are antigens associated with antibodies?
Antibodies are produced in response to antigens. If you get infected with one of the 200 viruses that cause colds, these viruses are antigens and your body will respond by making antibodies. The antibodies will inactivate the virus. It usually takes 7-10 for the process to be complete.
The immune system respond to agent cell or substances that are foreign or nonself collectively called?
antibodies
How does myasthenia gravis decrease the ability of a muscle to respond to stimulation?
In MG, immune cells create antibodies against the acetylcholine receptor. Antibodies are proteins normally involved in fighting infection. When these antibodies attach to the receptor, they prevent it from receiving acetylcholine
How do B lymphocytes respond to foreign protein?
B lymphocytes, or B cells would produce antibodies.
Blood type A will respond to a blood transfusion of blood type B with anti-B antibodies?
true
Can antibodies be used up?
Antibodies are continuous being produced by activated B cells in your body as a response to your constant exposure to invaders. Antibodies are proteins and synthesized like proteins. Therefore, antibodies will be produced until you die. However, antibodies against a certain type of invaders may disappear when the invaders are eliminated. The ability of the body to respond to the same invaders when they come again lies in the preservation of the B cells that produced these antibodies, not the actual antibodies themselves.
What is one similarity between cell receptors and antibodies?
Both agents are highly specific in their actions, and respond to a specific stimulus.
The immune system of humans may respond to chemicals on the surface of an invading organism by?
synthesizing antibodies that mark these organism to be destroyed
Can an antibody recognise a wide range of microorganisms?
No, antibodies respond to very specific chemicals, usually associated with only a single microorganism.
Will primary or secondary respond quicker and produce more antibodies?
though primary response is quicker as it is of parental origin but it doesnt produces much antibodies though it is effective, it is not specific and tries to defence against all types of the infectons. whereas the secondary response is specific for specific infections and produce more antibodies.
